A newly created high-resolution map of the roads that threaded across the Roman Empire charts the ancient network from Great ...

New findings increase the known length of the Roman Empire’s road network by more than 60,000 miles ...

A new digital map, Itiner-e, reveals 300,000 km of Roman roads across the ancient empire, offering a high-tech look at the ...

Pre-construction archaeological work at Benin City, Nigeria. Excavation of two building plots for the Museum of West African Art, Benin City, Nigeria, provides new perspectives on the Kingdom of Benin ...

At its zenith in the second century AD, the Roman Empire encompassed more than 55 million inhabitants stretching from Britain to Egypt and Syria. While historians have long recognized that an ...

“These Roman roads—both paved and unpaved—gave structure to massive cultural shifts that affected Western history for the ...

A new comprehensive map reveals the true scale of the ancient Roman road network – but it is still incomplete.

A new, comprehensive map and digital dataset show almost 300,000 kilometres of roads spanning an area of close to 4 million ...

A new digital map of the road network that once connected the Roman Empire has been created, revealing a staggeringly vast ...

Some disasters don’t just destroy cities—they reshape civilizations. From volcanic eruptions that blotted out the sun to ...

It’s no secret that the Romans liked to build roads. But European researchers say they've discovered an extra 100,000 ...

Egypt's former tourism and antiquities minister Khaled El-Enany is set to be confirmed as head of UNESCO on Thursday, despite ...